Connor A.

About Connor A.

As a DevSecOps Consultant, Connor Azzarello has delivered robust infrastructure solutions and streamlined deployments for various clients, leveraging his expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Gitlab CI, and AWS. He holds certifications as a Terraform Certified Associate and AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, demonstrating his proficiency and knowledge in cloud and automation technologies. Connor has successfully implemented end-to-end deployment automation frameworks, observability stacks, network topology improvements, and secure analytics platforms, using tools such as EKS, MongoDB, ArgoCD, and Grafana. He has reduced deployment time, manual steps, technical debt, and infrastructure costs, while enhancing developer productivity, reliability, scalability, and efficiency. He has embraced a DevSecOps approach, ensuring traceability and visibility through version control, creating repeatable infrastructure deployments. Connor has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science & Engineering from Santa Clara University, where he also served as a Database Management Teaching Assistant. He is passionate about driving productivity and enhancing reliability, and strives to deliver successful outcomes for every project.

Experience

1. Senior Devsecops Consultant

   Vrtl Space

   Aug 2022 — Present · Tysons Corner, VA, US

   Ohtalho- Engineered end-to-end deployment automation for a microservices-based application on EKS using Terraform and Ansible, streamlining operations through reducing deployment time by 60% and eliminating 25 manual steps.– Crafted a CI/CD pipeline with Gitlab CI and ArgoCD, enabling automated builds and rapid deployment to the development cluster, thereby significantly enhancing developer productivity.– Orchestrated a highly available, containerized, stateful MongoDB cluster on EKS, reducing AWS costs by 32% andlocal database deployment time by 70% through the use of Kubernetes in Docker (kind).– Instituted a set of best practices for image tagging, commit messages, and branching, reducing technical debt and enhancing clarity in processes.– Deployed the Grafana observability stack, offering developers comprehensive monitoring, metrics, and alerts, resulting in improved system insight and allowing the application to reach 99.5% uptime.FinviImplemented a DevSecOps approach to infrastructure management, utilizing GitOps for repeatable, traceable, and observable deployments through version control, reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 50%.– Deployed a secure, containerized analytics platform on AWS, leveraging EC2 instances and an RDS database to deliver advanced, reliable analytics capabilities.– Refined and standardized network topology across environments, enhancing developer productivity and minimizing downtime due to misconfigurations.– Implemented high-availability Apache web servers, providing robust support to Finvi’s automated call assist application and ensuring consistent, reliable performance, with 99.9% uptime and 20% improved response time.

Education

• Santa Clara University

  Bachelor of Science - BS